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Sequence 6: British & American Modernism
Readings for Research and Writing ("Path 2")

"the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead" (6).
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952)

 
G1
Art, Women, & Sexism

G2
Pale, Male Hubris
G3
Hidden Interior-ities
 G4
Diversity & Othering [longer novel]

G5
Victims & Survivors
G6
Reacting to Oppression [longer novel]

G7
Searching for Self-Knowledge
Wk 1
No Path 2 readings
No Path 2 readings
No Path 2 readings
No Path 2 readings
No Path 2 readings
No Path 2 readings
No Path 2 readings
 Wk 1
Wk 2
Dance, Girl, Dance
 (1940) / intro & qstns
 Rope
(1944) / intro & qstns
Cléo from 5 to 7
(1962) / intro & qstns
 A Patch of Blue
(1965) / intro & qstns		 Gaslight
 (1944) / intro & qstns		 Freaks
(1932) / intro & qstns		 Wild Strawberries
(1944) / intro & qstns		 Wk 2
Wk 3
To the Lighthouse, "The Window"
 Almayer's Folly, chps. 1-4
The Last September, Part 1
 Invisible Man, chps. 1-13 The Age of Innocence, chps. 1-14 Native Son,
3-184 / assault, murder		 Till We Have Faces, chps. 1-9 Wk 3
Wk 4
 
        Wk 4
Wk 5
To the Lighthouse, "Time Passes"
 Almayer's Folly, chps. 5-8
The Last September, Part 2
 Invisible Man, chps. 14-21 The Age of Innocence, chps. 15-24 Native Son,
184-340 / assault, murder		 Till We Have Faces, chps. 10-21 Wk 5
Wk 6
 
        Wk 6
Wk 7
To the Lighthouse, "The Lighthouse"
 Almayer's Folly, chps. 9-12
The Last September, Part 3
 Invisible Man, chps. 22-Epilogue The Age of Innocence, chps. 25-34 Native Son,
340-430		 Till We Have Faces, chps. Part II Wk 7
Wk 8
Path 2 Term Paper Outline Workshops
Path 2 Term Paper Outline Workshops
Path 2 Term Paper Outline Workshops
Path 2 Term Paper Outline Workshops
Path 2 Term Paper Outline Workshops
Path 2 Term Paper Outline Workshops
Path 2 Term Paper Outline Workshops
 Wk 8
Wk 9
Path 2 Term Paper Writing
Path 2 Term Paper Writing
Path 2 Term Paper Writing
Path 2 Term Paper Writing
Path 2 Term Paper Writing
Path 2 Term Paper Writing
Path 2 Term Paper Writing
 Wk 9


Dorothea Tanning's surrealist painting The Truth About Comets, depicting two figures with snake-like lower halves on a snowy field
The Truth About Comets (1945)
Dorrothea Tanning


Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu